Course Description:
Learn the basics using both the wheel and hand-building techniques. Wheel techniques will begin with simpler forms including a cylinder, bowl, and plate leading into more in-depth processes. Hand building will include pinch pots, coil, and slab. You will receive direction and encouragement to expand on areas of your own interest.
Course Description:
There is a long history of artists exploring and developing ideas using the sketchbook. In this class, students will use the sketchbook to learn core drawing techniques. Using pencil, pen/ink, and watercolor, they will discover the ways sketchbooks can be used to create finished drawings as well as for brainstorming new works of art. Former students are welcome as we will explore new projects.
Course Description:
Use the painting techniques of various well-known artists as a jumping-off point for your own work. Develop your acrylic painting skills while learning how various artists stylistically approach painting. Some of the artists we will look to for inspiration will include Frida Kahlo, Vincent van Gogh, Chuck Close, and Gustav Klimt.
Course Description:
The Handmade Book is a studio-based, hands-on course focused on making artist books from start to finish. You create 2-3 completed books while learning foundational hand-binding skills, working with found books, and experimenting with mixed media and structure. Projects include a Coptic stitch bound book, a transformed found book using cutting, collage, and erasure, and a final self-directed artist book. This is a making-intensive course with guided demonstrations, open studio time, and individual support. No prior experience required.
Course Descrioption:
If you are new to either art making or screen printing—or you appreciate analog art forms like embroidery or film photography—this class is for you.
You will learn to photo expose screens and play with images and inks to make prints. You can make a lot of them quickly, each one with slight imperfections that make it unique. Plan to play and make a few mistakes and messes along the way. You’ll have help and examples to guide you to a finished project meaningful to you.
Course Description:
Using basic materials, such as balsa wood and cardboard, this is all about exploring form. A thoughtful process of approaching sculpture, incorporating an illustrated journal and exercises, can establish a solid foundation when creating.
Course Description:
Using film instead of paper opens up new ways of using colored pencils. The smooth surface allows for less layering but more detail- making it ideal for fur and feather textures. The ability to work on both sides also gives depth of color ideal for botanical subjects. Discover the possibilities through experimentation and exploration before moving onto refined drawings.
Skill Level: Beginning/Intermediate
Course Description:
Practice drawing techniques via lectures, warm-up drawings, and longer finished poses. Techniques may include gesture and organizational line, contour line, shape-plane-volume-modeling, value, foreshortening, and anatomical studies. We will work from a clothed model and have critiques to provide a supportive class response. Choose to work in drawing and/or painting mediums.
Skill Level: All Levels
Course Description:
Each landscape has a feel all its own. We will look at how a variety of artists have depicted landscapes in their paintings, and each week be prompted by a topic(such as atmospheric perspective, painting distressed streets and walls, painting bodies of water). Whether you are painting in your own back yard or in a variety of travel locations, we will hone our observational skills, learn new techniques, and work with appropriate color palettes.
Skill Level: All Levels
